Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

33.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.